Whether a health educator, communication specialist, or health care provider, the understanding and use of health literacy are required to better serve the patient population across demographics, social-economic barriers, and literacy levels. There are many components to designing for health literacy. …

Color blindness is not a form of blindness or loss of vision, but rather a deficiency in the way an individual sees color. A result of various degrees of color-blindness is that an individual will have difficulty distinguishing specific colors, such as yellow and blue or green and red. For…

Health literacy can be one of those terms that you either understand in its pure form or make the wrong assumptions about its meaning. Health literacy design principles evolved since the 1990s by defining, redefining, and quantifying the functional literacy needs of a patient population, specifically focused on the literacy…

Regardless of whether the patient education material is digital, print, or multimedia, there are guidelines and common attributes that will make them more effective. Patient education materials are not merely the means of having the patient read information about their health condition. Properly designed patient education materials require a multi-faceted approach that enables the patient to read, listen, analyze, and make proper health decisions and to be given the skills that lead to improved…